The Dynare Summer School 2012 will take place from June 18 to June 22, 2012 in Paris, France.

GOALS OF SUMMER SCHOOL

The school will provide an introduction to Dynare and to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modeling. Dynare is a free sofware for simulating and estimating DSGE models.

The courses will focus on simulation, estimation of DSGE models as well as computation of optimal policy, identification and sensitivity analysis. It will be also the occasion to introduce the new features in Dynare 4.3 (to be released before the Summer School).

This Summer school is aimed at beginners as well as at more experienced researchers. PhD students are encouraged to participate.

APPLICATION

Interested people should fill the form at:

http://www.dynare.org/django2/SummerSchool/

Application should be done *before April 1st, 2012*. You will have to upload a CV and a recent research paper.

We will confirm acceptance by April 15, 2012.

People working in organizations member of DSGE-net (Bank of Finland, Banque de France, Capital Group, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Norges Bank, Sverige Riksbank, Swiss National Bank) should register via their network representative.

REGISTRATION FEE

- Registration fee for academics (including lunches and one diner, but no accomodation): 150 €

- Registration fee for financial institutions not member of DSGE-net (including lunches and one diner, but no accomodation): 1600 €

WORKSHOP VENUE

Banque de France 31 rue Croix des Petits Champs 75001 Paris France

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

This is a “portable only” workshop. Each participant is required to come with his/her portable computer with MATLAB version 7.0 or above installed. We will provide WiFi access, but participants shouldn't rely on it to access a MATLAB license server at their own institution. As an alternative to MATLAB, it is possible to use the free software GNU Octave, version 3.0 or higher (see http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DynareOctave).

WORKSHOP DRESSING CODE

Casual.

WORKSHOP ANIMATORS

- Stéphane Adjemian (CEPREMAP and Université du Maine) - Michel Juillard (Banque de France) - Ferhat Mihoubi (CEPREMAP and Université d’Évry) - Sébastien Villemot (CEPREMAP and Paris School of Economics) - Marco Ratto (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

This workshop is organized with the support of Banque de France, CEPREMAP and DSGE-net.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

See:

http://www.dynare.org/summerschool/2012/program.pdf